I wish an end to all of the complaining that goes on on this list. If something can't be found,maybe it is not there! There are a great many brick walls in Irish research, no fault of organisations like IFHF. Far to many people get angry if they pay money & there are not results, this is what research is all about. If you can't afford to research maybe you should give it away, I don't think that it is going to get any cheaper as more & more people are researching these days. I have many books & Irish records are very splintered, a lot of them are not complete. I have been told that there are many many records that are still not cataloged as yet & there lies another problem, finding volunteers. A great many of us get good results from these places, we are the silent ones. Robyn